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Post Structuralism
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Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism
and works against seeing language as a stable,
closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem
or novel as a closed entity, equipped with definite
meanings which it is the critic's task to decipher,
to seeing literature as irreducibly plural, an
endless play of signifiers which can never be
finally nailed down to a single center, essence,
or meaning.
Jan Rybicki, 2003
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― Post-structuralism and Related Quotes:: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Others
― Post-structuralism and Related Quotes:: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Others
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Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.
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― Mayday
― Mayday
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